Valeria Petrella

The paper identifies a Y-linked gene, MoY, essential for male sex determination in medflies and shows its conservation across multiple fruit fly species, enabling potential genetic control strategies.

The paper confirms a positive selection signal at the ABCA12 gene in Europeans and East-Asians and refines its genomic location, finding no direct effect on gene expression but tracing the T allele's trajectory in human history.

The paper identifies sex determination genes in sand flies using genomics and transcriptomics, proposes a model for their sex determination cascade, and characterizes a novel transformer homolog.